11 June 2008

Voice of S60 Podcast
Google Picasa Web Albums for S60

Petteri Koponen at the Jaiku Supernova TWiT Reception

Saara from S60 from the Voice of S60 blog interviewed the Petteri Koponen and Joe Walnes from Google and got some very exciting S60 related news to share about Google's Picasa Web Albums for S60.

There is an already some freeware java based Picasa photo browsers that enables you to view multiple public and private Picasa web albums and search for photos from your phone but these guys talking about better ways of sharing photos on your phone!

The audio quality not being optimal at times, they did this podcast using Skype since me and Petteri were in Finland and Joe in London. Hope you enjoy the podcast!

Petteri Koponen is a co-founder of four companies, who joined Google in 2007 after the acquisition of the micro-blogging company Jaiku. At Google, one of his favorite tasks is to look over Picasa Web Albums for mobile, a mobile-optimized AJAX application for browsing online photos.

Petteri has worked with mobile products for the last ten years. During this time, his duties have varied from selling service operator platforms in the Middle East to ramping up the R&D and operations of a pan-European mobile virtual network operator. He loves the diversity of mobile technologies and endless creativity of software engineers.

Joe Walnes is a software engineer for Google in London. For the past 12 years of his career, Joe has had a strong focus on building fast and intuitive web-applications - that's what he loves. In the last couple of years, he's turned his attention to mobile web-applications.

At Google, Joe leads the Picasa Web Albums for mobile team, where he's been investigating better ways to share photos on your phone. Outside of this, Joe is actively involved in the open source community. Search the web to find out more...

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